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Mimo Code Deep Dive: The Vision-Enhanced OpenCode Fork

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Mimo Code is a fork of OpenCode that adds vision support, reasoning model integration, and a polished terminal UI.

What Mimo Adds

Vision Support — Process screenshots, diagrams, UI mockups, and whiteboard photos as input. Enables bug report analysis from screenshots, UI diff comparison, architecture diagram understanding, and document OCR.

Reasoning Models — Support for reasoning-enhanced models that show chain-of-thought, useful for complex debugging and architectural analysis.

Enhanced Terminal UI — Better output formatting, collapsible sections, and progress indicators for long-running tasks.

Why Fork vs Contributing

Vision support required significant architectural changes to OpenCode’s tool execution pipeline. The fork has since developed its own community while maintaining compatibility with OpenCode’s skill format.

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